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Culture Shock:�The Civil War

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Shock 1:�Women in the Time�of War

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Victorian Era Corset

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Given what you know so far, what do you think the role of women was in the war?

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Here I show a scene from PBS’ Mercy Street (on Amazon Prime at the time of writing) about women’s role as nurses during the war.

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Shock 2:�Triage

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Desks

I need 10 volunteer actors.

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11(ish) volunteers.
1 Doctor
10 sick patients
X stretcher bearers (optional)
Patients role: follow card

But also beg for help

I, as doctor, interview each

While others look on. They rank

3 they would help first.

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You are a field surgeon. 10 patients have been brought to your hospital. Rank them in order from the one you’d care for first to the one you’d care for last.

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Hospital Conditions

Amputations - without anesthetics.

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Shock 3:�Secret Codes

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This message was found in the pocket of a Union soldier after his death at Cold Harbor in 1862. What do you think it is? What do you think it means?

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This message was found in the pocket of a Union soldier after his death at Cold Harbor in 1862. What do you think it is? What do you think it means?

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Shock 4:�Say CHEESE!

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Fake news!

Vid clip: http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/video/1481819695/
Lesson and pics:
http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/lessonplans&ideas/Lesson_Plan--The_Case_of_the_Moved_Body.pdf
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpb.04337/
Students write feelings on photo, then again after reading the narrative. Then reveal one, or both, are staged. (it’s the same guy!)

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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpb.00915/

Sharpshooter's Last Sleep

Copied from glass, wet collodion negative, alternate exposure, substantially identical to the one from which Gardner made Plate 40. �Full Image | Bibliographic Record�LC Caption: Gettysburg, Pa., Dead Confederate soldiers in "the devil's den" Photographed by Alexander Gardner, July 1863. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Reproduction number: LC-B8171-0277By Alexander Gardner�Text for Plate 40 in Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, published, 1865-66.

A burial party, searching for dead on the borders of the Gettysburg battle-field, found, in a secluded spot, a sharpshooter lying as he fell when struck by the bullet. His cap and gun were evidently thrown behind him by the violence of the shock, and the blanket, partly shown, indicates that he had selected this as a permanent position from which to annoy the enemy. How many skeletons of such men are bleaching to-day in out of the way places no one can tell. Now and then the visitor to a battle-field finds the bones of some man shot as this one was, but there are hundreds that will never be known of, and will moulder into nothingness among the rocks. There were several regiments of Sharpshooters employed on both sides during the war, and many distinguished officers lost their lives at the hands of the riflemen. The first regiment was composed of men selected from each of the Loyal States, who brought their own rifles, and could snuff a candle at a hundred yards. Some of the regiments tried almost every variety of arms, but generally found the Western rifle most effective. The men were seldom used in line, but were taken to the front and allowed to choose their own positions. Some climbed into bushy trees, and lashed themselves to the branches to avoid falling if wounded. Others secreted themselves behind logs and rocks, and not a few dug little pits, into which they crept, lying close to the ground and rendering it almost impossible for an enemy to hit thim. Occasionally a Federal and Confederate Sharpshooter would be brought face to face, when each would resort to every artifice to kill the other. Hats would be elevated upon sticks, and powder flashed on a piece of paper, to draw the opponent's fire, not always with success, however, and sometimes many hours would elapse before either party could get a favorable shot. When the armies were entrenched, as at Vicksburg and Richmond, the sharpshooters frequently secreted themselves so as to defy discovery, and picked off officers without the Confederate riflemen being able to return the fire.

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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpb.04337/

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter

Copied from glass, wet collodion negative from which Gardner made Plate 41.�Full Image | Bibliographic Record�LC Caption: Gettysburg, Pa., Dead Confederate soldier in the devil's den. Photographed by Alexander Gardner, July 1863. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Reproduction number: LC-B8171-7942By Alexander Gardner�Text for Plate 41 in Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, published, 1865-66.

On the Fourth of July, 1863, Lee's shattered army withdrew from Gettysburg, and started on its retreat from Pennsylvania to the Potomac. From Culp's Hill, on our right, to the forests that stretched away from Round Top, on the left, the fields were thickly strewn with Confederate dead and wounded, dismounted guns, wrecked caissons, and the debris of a broken army. The artist, in passing over the scene of the previous days' engagements, found in a lonely place the covert of a rebel sharpshooter, and photographed the scene presented here. The Confederate soldier had built up between two huge rocks, a stone wall, from the crevices of which he had directed his shots, and, in comparative security, picked off our officers. The side of the rock on the left shows, by the little white spots, how our sharpshooters and infantry had endeavored to dislodge him. The trees in the vicinity were splintered, and their branches cut off, while the front of the wall looked as if just recovering from an attack of geological small-pox. The sharpshooter had evidently been wounded in the head by a fragment of shell which had exploded over him, and had laid down upon his blanket to await death. There was no means of judging how long he had lived after receiving his wound, but the disordered clothing shows that his sufferings must have been intense. Was he delirious with agony, or did death come slowly to his relief, while memories of home grew dearer as the field of carnage faded before him? What visions, of loved ones far away, may have hovered above his stony pillow! What familiar voices may he not have heard, like whispers beneath the roar of battle, as his eyes grew heavy in their long, last sleep!On the nineteenth of November, the artist attended the consecration of the Gettysburg Cemetery, and again visited the "Sharpshooter's Home." The musket, rusted by many storms, still leaned against the rock, and the skeleton of the soldier lay undisturbed within the mouldering uniform, as did the cold form of the dead four months before. None of those who went up and down the fields to bury the fallen, had found him. "Missing," was all that could have been known of him at home, and some mother may yet be patiently watching for the return of her boy, whose bones lie bleaching, unrecognized and alone, between the rocks at Gettysburg.

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Why do you think the photographer “faked” his photos?

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I close with a clip from History Detectives about this subject. ��http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/video/1481819695/

Video here

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Shock X:�Drill, drill, drill

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Ready for Battle

Lines and attention,
Letter to fam